New Order’s The Lost Sirens feels like a time capsule of sounds

New Order’s unreleased material features on new album The Lost Sirens (Picture: Rhino Records)

Album review: New Order’s mini-album of previously unreleased material offers few classics but will still delight fans of the band with its feelgood sound.

More than a year has passed since New Order’s mini-album of unreleased material was announced. The contents date back further, with the Salford indie icons stressing that the tracks were deliberately saved from sessions for 2005 album Waiting For The Sirens’ Call.

It does sound like cracking open a time capsule; this was New Order’s ‘blokiest’ line-up (keyboardist Gillian Gilbert was on leave), as numbers exude the rousing oomph of the original LP.